Aeoronautical Museum in Serbia

[Milos Sijacki]

The museum is located inside a building, a glass dome, specifically built for that purpose.

 

[Heinz]

Great stuff Milos, thankyou for sharing

 

[Wayne Little]

Thanks for sharing them mate!

 

[Milos Sijacki]

Here are the photos of a cockpit and a wing of a F-117.

 

[Ramirezzz]

nice photos Milos! I didn't know that the ЈРВ had the Ka-25s as well.

 

[Matt308]

The grey "wing" can't be US. Or it is a US structural part that has been improperly repainted. Note the US insignia is perpendicular to flight. Something is strange there.

And the Yak-9... what kind of engine in it? Doesn't look like the original.

 

[pbfoot]

The grey "wing" can't be US. Or it is a US structural part that has been improperly repainted. Note the US insignia is perpendicular to flight. Something is strange there.

And the Yak-9... what kind of engine in it? Doesn't look like the original.

Its also not lo vis

 

[Matt308]

Yeah it would have to be early 60s to early 70s. Looks like a museum piece gone wrong.

 

[Milos Sijacki]

Where do You see Yak-9? There is only Yak-3 and Ikarus S-49 which was based on Yak and Ikarus Ik-3 fighters.

Sorry for the pictures being so BIG!!!

 

[Matt308]

You answered my question.

 

[imalko]

all the ww2 planes, including hurricanes and a bf 109 are painted with the former yoguslavian socialist republic air force, isnt that correct ? do you know if they came to the museum painted like that or if that was a idea of someone of the museum ?

Most aircrafts in this museum (including WW2 planes) are marked with Socialist Yugoslavian markings becouse at one time or another they all served in Yugoslav Air Force. Some were used operationally and other (like Foland Gnat for example) just for evaluation.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Great material Jug. Thank you for posting.

 

[imalko]

The last photo is of a wing from some kind of American plane. Sorry for the bad angle, it was in a location where you need a special permit and I didn't have it.

Does anyone know which plane is that wing from?

Graeme was on the right track... This is not the wing but part of the horizontal tail surface - of an Ilyushin IL-76! There is interesting story behind this...

One IL-76 crashed near Belgrade International Airport in 1996. Parts of it that were salvaged were handed over to the Museum. And now comes the interesting part... During filming of Serbian movie "Pad u raj" ("Falling Into Paradise") this part of IL-76 horizontal tail surface was used to represent an shoot downed US airplane and thus the painted US markings on it. Only they had painted it completely incorrectly as you may have noticed...

So, that's the solution of this little "mystery"... Unfortunately I can't take credit for this explanation since the role of "aviation detectives" were played by some guys on the Mycity Military forum, which is similar to our own forum here but in Serbian language. I just stumbled upon their findings by chance.

As a side note this movie is dark humor comedy about fictional US AWACS pilot who in the movie was shot down over Serbia in 1999. Its actually a quite funny movie. The role of US pilot was played by Simon Lyndon and famous Serbian actors Lazar Ristovski and Branka Katić were also starring. If someone is interested here is a link with additional info on this movie:
ZILLION film :: FALLING INTO PARADISE

Here is also few photos of this unusually painted IL-76 tail surface both from the ground and from the air and one photo of IL-76 at Batajnica in 1997 for comparison:

 

[imalko]

I almost forgot, there is one more thing... Not knowing about this thread started earlier by Milos I have started my own thread about Aeronautical Museum in Belgrade, so if someone is interested in more photos and info about this museum, here is the link:

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/wa...eronautical-museum-belgrade-serbia-17442.html

Enjoy!

 

[Orion_vp31]

Wow great shots.......very interesting seeing all the U.S. parts?